Statewater

The Post has a nicely detailed piece in Monday’s paper on the relationship between the State Department and Blackwater. The main investigative questions still need to be gotten into. But is a good overview. How did State get into this tight relationship with Blackwater? The narrow and immediate answer is that they inherited the relationship from the Pentagon when the CPA went out of business. But there’s turf battles between State and DOD, the State Department’s own lack of capacity to protect so many of its people in such a hostile environment. The piece is, in some respects, State’s response to all the bad publicity and criticism. But if you’re interested in this issue definitely give it a read.